Isaac Serukenya, CEO of Newplan, gives an overview of the company. Newplan is a leading consultancy firm that has been present in Uganda and the region for 25 years.

"Newplan has been here for 25 years, but there is still a lot of room for other players to enter. 25 years is a very short time for the consultancy field. There are other international consultancy firms that have been around for almost 100 years. There are not very many players in the consultancy field here in Uganda and among those that are, there are still capacity issues that we need to deal with in the country. Newplan is a firm of consulting engineers and planners. We cover a diverse area of infrastructure including oil and gas, energy, architecture and building services, highways and transport, engineering surveys, evaluation, legal services, logistics for various infrastructure development programs, and project management. Also critical to our field is the area of health and safety. That has come up as a major demand from our partners and our clients especially in the oil and gas sector. Newplan as a company has a competitive edge over the other firms because of our local knowledge. We have been here for 25 years. Many of us currently at Newplan used to work within the government infrastructure system. I am personally an electrical engineer and I worked with the Uganda Electricity Board before they unbundled and became the various companies they are now. After that, I was retained by UETCL for a few years handling their transmission system and construction engineer substations. We have a lot of history and knowledge of the local context both in the Ministries within the government and with the various partners that the government has already worked with which gives us a lot of leverage. We are very keen on ethics and integrity. We have an anti-corruption policy here within the company and have been following it since the company started. We have been audited several times by various international agencies and have come out very clean. It has worked out in our favor and given us a major competitive edge in our environment, not only in Uganda but in the region as well. We have grown to be a highly respected consultancy firm. Because of that, we are now diversifying to provide services in various areas. We are not just Newplan Ltd. as consultants but now we have ventured into other fields. We have opened Newplan Rwanda that has been operating for two to three years. We have Newplan Kenya which has been operating for about a year and a half. We also opened Newplan Engineering two years ago which focuses on the EPC side of the business: engineering, procurement, and construction. We also have Newplan Geolabs focusing on materials testing. We are diversifying, expanding, and building on the wealth of experience and knowledge that we have gained so far", says Isaac Serukenya.

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